sba7 صباح
Moroccan Darija · noun
“sba7” (صباح) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning morning.
Meanings
- morning
- tomorrow morning
- good morning
Usage
Sbah means morning. Used alone as an adverb, it often means "this morning" or "tomorrow morning" depending on the tense of the verb: dini m3ak sbah means "take me with you tomorrow morning". One also says f sbah and m3a sbah ("early in the morning"). The greeting sbah lkhir ("good morning") is answered with sbah nnour. The final h is really a 7 (ḥ): the spelling sba7 is the most faithful, but sbah is very widespread.
Example
ماجيك تال صباح
madjik tal sbah
“She won't come until morning.”
Forms
| plural | Sba7at |
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Forms as recorded in DODa, in its spelling.
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sba7” but also “sbah”, “sbe7”, “sbh” and “sbaa7”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 7 is ha (ح), a breathy h from the throat.
Type “sba7” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “morning”; “dawn prayer”: sbah in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “morning”; “in the morning, this morning (essbe7)”: sbe7 in Tunisian.